Corn-husking cylinder



0. ADAMS.

conN HusKlNG CYLINDER. A ION FILED) NE |91 AP 1 7, 1,346,955 1 Patented July 2o, 1920.

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CORN-HUSKING CYLIN A Application led .Tune `17, To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, Oris ADAMS, a citizen of the United States, residing near Rio, in the county of Knox and State of Illinois,

Yhave invented a new and useful Corn-Huskof which the following is a ments as embodied in and with a common type of farm elevator;

Fig. 2, an enlarged transverse section seen through a pair of coacting cylinders;

Fig. 3, an enlarged detail, seen at the upper end of the cylinder-box or hopper and looking downward; and

Fig. 4, a longitudinal section, taken in the plane of the line 4 4 in Fig. 1.

It will be noted in the drawingthat but Y three sets of cylinders are shown; while this is suiiicient for a full disclosure of my improvements, it will be found better in practice to use about iive.

2 designates an ordinary farm elevator, chute, the hopper portion of which has been removed for placement of my improvements, and 3 designates the usual carrier-belt-driving mechanism. 4 is the carrier-belt.

My improvements are so placed in the Y chute, it is to be noted, that they constitute the hopperinto which the loads of corn are dumped as they come from the field, 5, 5 being the hopper-sides. 6 and 7 designate respectively the upper and lower ends or cross pieces of the hopper. These sides and ends constitute the hopper box, the floor of which is formed by a plurality of my improved cylinders. Each cylinder comprises preferably substantially annular ends 8, 8 and a central rib 9, provided with registering grooves 10 in their peripheries. In each registering set of grooves is fixed an elongated tooth or cog 11, preferably circular in cross section in order that it may not shell or loosen the grains of corn from the ears. The ends 8, 8 and rib 9 are fixed in aline- Inent upon a rotatably mounted shaft 12. It

y YSpecification of Letters Patent.

lof which a block 21 is seated.

Patented July 20, 1920. 191s. serial 110.240,358. i

should be particularly noted thatthe rods of one cylinderiit fairly close between the rods of the other cylinder, and roll on concave surfaces of said disksbetween adjacent rods.

Vhen a rod of one cylinder enters the space between adjacent rods of another cylinder,

there will be produced a wedging action between the curved surfaces. These circular rods are far more effective vfor feeding the husks between the rolls than the angular rods previously used, and more effective for tearing the husks from the ears of corn since the rods have a rolling action on one another and remain in cooperative relation for a longer and more effective period than angular rods.

13 indicates a drive shaft. shown as receiving motion from the mechanism 3. are secured bevel gear wheels 14, 15, k16. The wheel 14 meshes with and drives a bevel gear wheel 17 fixed upon the lower end of the shaft 12, which at this end has a bearing in the hopper-end 7, its upper end having a bearing in the hopper-end 6.

Eachdriving cylinder 18 above described drives a cylinder 19 the construction `of which is identical. The ends of the hopperbox are cut away to form ways 2O in each* In Y. corresponding pairs of these blocks'are rotatably mounted the ends 23 of the shaftA of a cylinder 19. In each way 2O is a spring 22 bearing against the adjacent block 21,'thus yieldingly pressing the coacting cylinder 19-into contact with that cylindery which iswdrivingv it.

In operation, the load of freshly gathered*YV the wheel 24 and thus to the shaft 13, wheel 14, wheel 17, shaft 12 and cylinder 18. Itwill be evident that the-cogs or teeth of the latter and those of the coacting cylinder 19. are in mesh, each cylinder 18 driving a cylinder 19. It maybe noted at this point that each cylinder 19 is free to yield at either or both of its ends, independently of the cylinder which drives it. y

The teeth of each cylinder androfeach pair of coacting cylinders are soy spaced apart that they freely permit all loose grains of corn to'fall down between them; notwithstanding this the teeth of each pair roll in The operation of the carrier chute and into the bin is too well known to reuire description herein.

aving thus described my invention, Iv

claim as new the following, to-wit:

A corn husking apparatus comprising a driving shaft, a rotary` cylinder geared to said driving shaft, Said cylinder comprising a plurality of circular disks, a plurality of circular rods symmetrically arranged and but in @0nveying the corn from the hopper through the.

spaced approximately the diameter of the rods, secured to the peripheries of said disks,

disk intermediate the the portions of the and a similar cylinder ro ds being concave,

yieldingly mounted in meshing engagement Y In witness whereof I hereuntov subscribeY my name this 8th day of June, 1918, at Rio,- lnox county, Illinois. Y

Vo'rrs ADAMS. i i Y 

